Ecosystem Health Responses of Urban Agglomerations in Central Yunnan Based on Land Use Change.

ABSTRACT: Land use change in urban agglomerations is gradually becoming a major cause and a key factor of global environmental change. As a consequence of the interaction between land use and ecological processes, the transformation in natural ecosystem structure and function with human activity disturbances demands a systematic assessment of ecosystem health. Taking the Central Yunnan urban agglomeration, undergoing transition and development, as an example, the current study reveals the typical land use change processes and then emphasizes the importance of spatial heterogeneity of ecosystem services in health assessment. The InVEST model-based ecosystem service assessment is incorporated into the ecosystem health evaluation, and hotspot analysis is performed to quantitatively measure the ecosyste

SUBMITTER: Gao B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9564870 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature